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My sermon from Sunday on the topic of Ethical Eating: I’ve dreaded doing this sermon from the moment I picked the topic. I feel somewhat compelled to address the topic because we picked “Ethical Eating” as the subject for generating a Statement of Conscience at our yearly denominational General Assembly in Fort Lauderdale, June of […]
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I’m at the Iroquois Chapter Unitarian Universalist Minister’s Retreat that is held at the end of October at the White Eagle Conference Center near Hamilton, New York. One of my colleagues, the Rev. Craig Schwalenberg, who was just installed as the UU minister in Oneonta, NY, told us about the exciting adventure of looking for […]
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I’ve been mourning the death of Dr. George Tiller who was shot to death in Wichita, Kansas, while ushering in church. One of the few doctors willing to do second term abortions, we’ve read how he has been threatened, attacked, and continually harassed. It is hard to imagine what his life has been like even […]
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I’m spending time with my sister before going to the Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship Convocation that will be in Oceanside, California starting today. I flew in on Wednesday and have been staying with my sister. After I freshened up at her place in Irvine, we went down to the beach. I took a few pictures […]
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Here is what I spoke about today – thought some in the blogosphere might enjoy it. This is the fourth in a series of sermons on peace making. The first coincided with the dedication of our Peace Pole. It focused on the origin of the peace pole and the inspirational phrase, “May Peace Prevail on […]
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I’ve been patronizing the Honest Weight Co-op for the last nine years without being a member. They have my favorite brown rice (Lundberg short grain) and a few other specialty items that are hard to find in other stores. Twenty years ago I was a member of the coop in Rochester, NY and remember enjoying […]
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My apologies from being away from my blog, but I’ve been intensely busy preparing for my trip to Transylvania (western Romania). My congregation has a partner church over there in Szokefalva that will be celebrating it’s 200th Anniversary. I’ll be leaving Saturday, April 12 and returning April 22. Unitarianism actually got its start back in […]
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Given all the hoopla about the snow expected for this morning, I was a little disappointed in what I saw when I opened the garage door to deal with the driveway. We canceled a newcomer orientation for this morning last night expecting a snow emergency. So when I saw some bare pavement visible, I was […]
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